An ex-senior inspector at the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch offers potential clues as to what may have caused the crash.
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Mr Cable said if there was a fire in one engine then under the normal protocol the fuel supply would be turned off and the plane would be able to be flown with just the one good engine. Although the Boeing aircraft involved in Wednesday's crash was from the same family as the MAX, it was different in that it operates with a different software system to the one implicated in the MAX crashes, he said.The passenger jet came down in farmland outside Tehran hours after Iran launched rocket attacks against two bases in neighbouring Iraq housing US troops.
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